Located in Giza Governorate, the main economic sectors are agriculture, iron ore mining, and tourism.

In the New Kingdom, this name is rarely found, although it does appear for example in the Temple of Luxor and in the account of King Kamose, who occupied the oasis during the war against the Hyksos.

[citation needed] The modern name is الواحات البحرية, al-Wāḥāt al-Baḥriyya meaning "the Northern Oasis”.

In El Heiz, a prehistoric settlement site of hunter-gatherers was found with remains of grindstones, arrowheads, scrapers, chisels, and ostrich eggshells.

The female mummy was 3 feet tall and covered with plaster decorated to resemble Roman dress and jewellery.

In addition to the female mummy, archaeologists found clay and glass vessels, coins, anthropoid masks and fourteen Greco-Roman tombs.

Director of Cairo and Giza Antiquities Mahmoud Affifi, the archaeologist who led the dig, said the tomb has a unique design with stairways and corridors, and could date to 300 BC.

With the new road came electricity, cars, television, phone lines, a more accessible route to Cairo, and, more recently, internet.

Music from Cairo, the greater Middle East, and other parts of the world are now easily accessible to the people of the oasis.

[21] Agriculture is still an important source of income, though now the iron ore industry close to Bahariya provides jobs for many Wahati people.

Recently there has also been an increase in tourism to the oasis because of antiquities (tombs, mummies and other artifacts have been discovered there), and because of the beautiful surrounding deserts.

Bahariasaurus was a huge theropod and was described by Ernst Stromer in 1934,[24] however the type specimen was destroyed during World War II in 1944.

In 2000, an American scientific team conducted by Joshua Smith found the remains of sauropod dinosaur, Paralititan stromeri.

In addition, the landscape contains some hills made of barite or calcite crystals, and also golden limestone boulders which became a sanctuary for species, such as white foxes, gazelles and rams.

[26] In June 2022, paleontologists reported the discovery of a 98-million-year-old type of abelisaurid in Bahariya Oasis, which was around 20 feet (6.1 m) in length and initially found in 2016.